Rush Limbaugh: The Tragedy of Black Unemployment (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 4:30 PM

How long with the Democratic-Media Complex be able to hide this tragedy?
Under Barack Obama the the black labor force participation rate has reached rock bottom.

Kristinn Taylor reported this on Monday–Five years in to Barack Obama’s presidency, the number of African-Americans participating in the labor force has hit rock bottom.
The black labor force participation rate under Obama has hit the lowest level ever recorded.

RUSH: Now, the labor force participation rate. This is a story from Gateway Pundit, and it is actually sourced from PBS. The black labor force participation rate under Obama has hit the lowest level ever recorded. “Five years in to Barack Obama’s presidency, the number of African-Americans participating in the labor force has hit rock bottom.” It was in the unemployment report on Friday, and it was totally ignored.

“The drop in labor force participation was sharpest for African Americans,” 60.2%. That’s the lowest since December of 1977. The rate of African-American men not in the labor force, the percentage of African-American men not in the labor force, 65.6%. Let’s use the reverse. Thirty-five percent of African men are in the labor force. Now, that does not mean they all have jobs. The 65% is people out of work who have stopped looking. Thirty-five percent of African-American men in the labor force, not all of them are working, but in order to be considered in the labor force, you have to be trying to find a job, you have to be applying for jobs.